FOX has unveiled a set of schedules that will shift throughout the season–and even into Summer 2014.  Let’s take a look. FALL MONDAY 8PM:         Bones/Almost Human 9PM:         Sleepy Hollow FOX didn’t want to launch back-to-back new dramas in the fall, so Bones will set up Sleepy Hollow‘s debut until an unspecified (post-baseball) date in […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP dropped 0.11 from Thursday to 0.50.  A 20/20 rerun followed at 0.46. CBS:  BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION fell 0.09 from Wednesday to 0.45, followed by a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.24. NBC:  The WINTER OLYMPICS was at 0.97/1.14, down from 2.90 on the parallel night in 2018. FOX:  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SHARK TANK rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW led Wednesday cable, up 0.05 to 0.54.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC slipped 0.02 to 0.47.  Fox News’s HANNITY was the #3 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The only change in final numbers was the not atypical 0.1 shift in CBS’s 8PM hour, as BIG BANG THEORY gained the fraction and LIFE IN PIECES lost it.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  At this point, the REPUBLICAN DEBATES […]

  Steadiness can be good news these days. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game rose 0.2 in final numbers, but 48 HOURS and DATELINE lost 0.1, as did the NCIS rerun at 8PM       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NCAA BASKETBALL neared Sunday’s announcement of the Tournament bracket with league championships, 3 of which […]

>ABC premiered the “comedy” Work It, and America did not turn out for it.  CBS went back to basics and brought back its regular Tuesday schedule (all in originals), winning the night unlike the same night last year, when it let Paula Abdul mess up its powerhouse Tuesday schedule.  NBC also went with originals of […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, sports preemptions were so plentiful last night that we held our analysis for final numbers. NBC:  THE WALL gained 0.2 to 0.9, then SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE held at last week’s 1.2.  After a 0.5 rerun of GREAT NEWS, THE NIGHT SHIFT rose 0.1 to […]